Diana Majlinger

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always...

Nicholas Clifford and 9 more 28 hours 28 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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History

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 4

The fourth and final volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume discusses how the Inquisition dealt with mysticism, solicitation of illicit relationships, bigamy, theological propositions,...

Larry Wilson and 14 more 25 hours 46 minutes

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History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3

The 3rd volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume covers torture practices; the trial process; punishments; Jews, Moriscos, and Protestants; and censorship. — Summary by Sienna

Larry Wilson and 11 more 25 hours 8 minutes

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Religion

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John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3

Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in...

Diana Majlinger and 17 more 24 hours 41 minutes Institutes of the Christian Religion

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Essays & Short Works

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Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do...

Jim Locke and 23 more 24 hours 2 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Duke's Children

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, finding himself in charge of his three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, has...

Nicholas Clifford and 11 more 22 hours 42 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas

The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah!...

Barry Eads and 14 more 22 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

544

Alexandre Dumas - Vicomte De Bragelonne

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Kristen Zaza and 16 more 20 hours 29 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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General Fiction

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Maria Edgeworth - Belinda

When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the novel, and popular because it's a very good comedy of manners, like...

Mimi Wang and 10 more 19 hours 35 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

Political Science

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the...

Deborah Brabyn and 16 more 17 hours 29 minutes

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Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Philosophy

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that...

bala and 10 more 17 hours 23 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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